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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 8692320" data-attributes="member: 8863"><p>College of Wizardry is my personal favorite of the three stronghold books. I'm probably just partial to wizards. It probably helps that the ideas here got a somewhat rudimentary upgrade to 3e in Tome and Blood. The clunky NWP rules for the Language Primeval got updated to metamagic feats, and the Spellcrux had updated mechanics as well. Unfortunately the biggest impact was probably that the Order became the basis for one of the more abused PrCs. I've also always like Mathghamhna itself and the way Cordell structured it.</p><p></p><p>Bastion of Faith is okay but it's mostly structured on a typical Christian abbey, and that's not terribly fresh or interesting. The story with Ferrante isn't bad though. I'd possibly gripe about it being tied in with Heironeous, but my own homebrew campaign has an equivalent god so that's no big deal.</p><p></p><p>The Apocalypse Stone didn't really interest me. I didn't feel the need to blow up my world to make room for 3e. Blowing up the campaign world to kick off a new edition isn't something I like to do because I'm more interested in building a long term campaign world. Also at the time the campaign I was working on was still pretty new fresh, taking some advice from Ray Winninger's Dungeoncraft column in Dragon. It wasn't too hard to shift over when I was putting the fundamentals in place. I did find WotC's ad campaign for these adventures as a bunch of cleaning products to clean out a cluttered campaign amusing, though.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orius, post: 8692320, member: 8863"] College of Wizardry is my personal favorite of the three stronghold books. I'm probably just partial to wizards. It probably helps that the ideas here got a somewhat rudimentary upgrade to 3e in Tome and Blood. The clunky NWP rules for the Language Primeval got updated to metamagic feats, and the Spellcrux had updated mechanics as well. Unfortunately the biggest impact was probably that the Order became the basis for one of the more abused PrCs. I've also always like Mathghamhna itself and the way Cordell structured it. Bastion of Faith is okay but it's mostly structured on a typical Christian abbey, and that's not terribly fresh or interesting. The story with Ferrante isn't bad though. I'd possibly gripe about it being tied in with Heironeous, but my own homebrew campaign has an equivalent god so that's no big deal. The Apocalypse Stone didn't really interest me. I didn't feel the need to blow up my world to make room for 3e. Blowing up the campaign world to kick off a new edition isn't something I like to do because I'm more interested in building a long term campaign world. Also at the time the campaign I was working on was still pretty new fresh, taking some advice from Ray Winninger's Dungeoncraft column in Dragon. It wasn't too hard to shift over when I was putting the fundamentals in place. I did find WotC's ad campaign for these adventures as a bunch of cleaning products to clean out a cluttered campaign amusing, though. [/QUOTE]
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